By Sarah Breger The recent release of an expert panel's recommendation that mammography screenings be scaled back has drawn fire from women, lawmakers and health care professionals. But for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in this case, the personal is political. Wasserman Schultz was diagnosed with breast cancer at age...
By Sarah Breger The White House is planning on cutting invitations to the annual Hanukkah party by half. Shockingly, Jews in Washington are complaining. [JPost] Moment columnist Eric Alterman declares war on The New Republic, saying the publication is bad for the Jews. [theNation] But the real question...
By Sarah Breger A new study released last week finds that outside of New York, Jews are more likely than non-Jews to have elements of a New York accent. "The Survey of American Jewish Language and Identity" reports the results of a survey of 25,179 American...
By Sarah Breger Ari Teman, the founder of JCorps, won the first Jewish Community Hero award this week. JCorps is an organization that runs programs for young Jewish volunteers in cities around the world. [JTA] TNRtv put together a video on the anti-Semitic group Westboro Baptist Church...
By Sarah Breger Every law and crime TV series has its requisite "super-Jew" episode, featuring members of the Orthodox Jewish community involved in some sort of wrongdoing. And the The Good Wife is no exception. The new CBS procedural drama starring Julianna Margulies as the wronged...
By Sarah Breger "I have not seen a crowd this size since my bar mitzvah," Rahm Emanuel announced before launching into his talk for the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations this afternoon. Emanuel addressed the crowd of over 3,000 Jews in place of President Barack...
By Sarah Breger Check out the new issue of Moment, including our cover story on Britain's Brainy (and Jewish) Foreign Secretary! ...
By Sarah Breger Two South Carolina GOP officials published an article defending Republican Sen. Jim DeMint—who was attacked for letting federal money go to other states—by using some previously unknown Jewish wisdom. There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by...
By Sarah Breger This is why I love academics: They take the ordinary, banal, and regular and infuse it with such overwhelming importance you are likely to think the blister cream used in the 1940s was just as important as D-Day (and who am I too...
